Maybe Northwest area uses smooth side trailers due to snow and other bad stuff
There’s plenty of riveted trailers out here. Probably just a low resolution photo so we can’t see the rivets. But I like the interesting wind deflector on the front.
What’s a standard loading dock height?
Cottonseed trailers need ventilation. Usually via a cutout in the doors. too bad you can’t see the rear of the trailer. I’m thinking the trailer maybe a load of hay bales. Were they not selling bales at that time?
Hay bales seemed to be unloaded and stored in a different building…
If cottonseed needs ventilation how could they ship it in a bales in a boxcar?
idk. Maybe I’m wrong. I was looking to buy a trailer once and some had large cutouts in the doors. The guy told me they were “cottonseed trailers” from Texas and need the vents.
Maybe bales vs loose? I have no clue.
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The exterior bracing is what I was talking about, plus you can see the roll tarp how it comes down on both sides and has the catches.
As far as cottonseed needing ventilation never hears that one before , most cottonseed is hauled in the type of trailer in these pictures , at least here on west coast. They would want to protect it from getting wet , which would cause mold
Thanks Pete.
You’re forcing me to study the photos again. Oh darn. And each time I’m noticing slightly different details I hadn’t noticed before. Just now I looked at the photo and thought hum the main building sits slightly lower than the railsiding. And the loading shed is slightly higher with a nice slope down. Will I add this? Maybe? Maybe not, but I’ve looked at these photos for years and I keep noticing new things like that when I study them.
Here’s the photo I was referencing earlier with the loading dock.
I know that bump out is about 12’ wide, so I’m guessing the dock is what 6-8’ wide and 3-4’ off the ground? It will be buried deep in the model. Interesting the pipe that drops in the ceiling right behind the loading dock as well. Steam pipe?
Docks vary in height , most probably in the 4’ high range, and most dock plates are designed to fit inside a 8’wide trailer , so the actual plate is probably around 7’6” or so wide.
To me that dock looks like it you come out of the trailer and turn to our right looking at the picture, to the right where there is a doorway into the building that parallels the trailer.
I’m trying to figure out where you are talking about? There’s a door at the end of the building for sure.
Gotcha. Makes sense if you had a dock to have a exit/entry into the building for sure.
What’s interesting to me about the building is the various things that got added over the years as things were needed/changed.
Primer coat down. Used up the last of a rattle can primer in the stash as well. I’m a big convert to Stynylrez primer and will likely not go back to rattle cans unless I have too. Despite the hard to spell and say name, this lays down nice with an airbrush and dries with low heat really fast. So fast that I can be priming and painting in a few minutes. I can flood the model with really really bad coverage and not get runs like you would with a rattle can. So yah, the big bottle can now officially get opened as the rattle can stuff is gone now.
That’s pretty amazing performance for a water based product.
I have an industrial metal primer at work that has those performance features, but it’s very high VOC and water thin. Sure does spray nice though 
This stuff is great. Badger sells it rebranded as a more expensive scale hobby primer as relabeled. I forget which one. Like Ammo by Mig?
I just buy it directly. And Badger did something to it too make it easy to airbrush as well.
Buy it directly from where? I couldn’t find any way to buy items on the Badger website.
I get it here.
Badger says they don’t sell direct but from the sales that Badger offers and the sales that this place offers at the exact same time it’s pretty good guess it’s Badger selling as a 3rd party.
Here’s round 1 of weathering. I still need to work on the wheels and back area a bit more but I think the rest is looking pretty good.
I was in a big fat hurry with the primer and got streaks but now I’m using them to my advantage as weathering artifacts.
Pretty clear line of where I stopped last night…
The back end hasn’t been touched at all yet. Need to plumb some hydraulic lines first and then start weathering.
